Blower



Sept. 24, 1929. D. c. BAKER 1,129,093

BLOWER I Filed Oct. 21. 1926 flex/er 6. 50km" 4 rrauzrs Patented Sept. 24, 1929 DEXTEB C. BAKER, O EOAKLAND,

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CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO BAKER-HANSEN MANU- CORPOBATION OF CALIFORNIA BLOWER Application fled October 21,1926. Serial No. 143,138.

It has become the custom in garages to dry automobiles, after they have been washed, by means of a blast of compressed air. The air used for this purpose is the compressed air ordinarily available in a garage and which is furnished for operating pneumatic machincry and for inflating tires. The pressure of the air is usually in the neighborhood of 150 pounds per square inch. When used to dry a car, the air is discharged by means of a nozzle against the previously washed automobile and blows part of the water off and removes the remainder by evaporation. This method of drying, although effective, is

- wasteful of air as a large amount of air under high pressure is used. It is also liable to be injurious to the finish of the vehicle as the corresponding high velocity of the jet of high pressure air tends to drive small particles of gritty matter such as sand and dirt into the finish of the car. Special blowers are sometimes installed for furnishing drying air, but they are an expense in addition to the usual garage equipment, not only for initial cost but for upkeep. The air they deliver tends to be warmed by the compression. It is considered that warm air is not advantageous for use against highly finished, varnished surfaces often encountered.

. It is therefore an object of my invention to .provide a blower which will utilize the compressed air equipment already existing in a garage for furnishing air suit-able for use in drying vehicles. Another object of my invention is to rovide a blower which is inexpensive in rst cost and requires practically no maintenance.

A further object of my invention is to provide a blowerwhich will furnish cool air for drying purposes.

An additional object of my invention is to provide a blower which will utilize but a small amount'of highly compressed air to furnish a large volume of air suitable for vehicle 46 drying.

My invention possesses other advantageous features, some of which with the foregoing will be set forth at length in the following description where I shall outline in full that '50 form of the blower of my invention, which I have selected for illustration in the drawings accompanying and forming part of the present specification. In said drawings I have shown one form of blower embodying my invention, but it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to such form since the invention, as set forth in the claim, may be em bodied ina plurality of forms.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a cross section of the blower of my invention the plane of section being indicated by the line 1-1 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the blower shown in Fig. 1. v I

Fig. 3 shows in side elevation the blower of my invention attached to a suitable controlling cock and air line and indicates the blower in position for use.

Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the blower of my invention the plane of section being indicated by the line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

The blower of my invention preferably comprisesa tube in which a comparatively small amount of highly com ressed air can expand and which is provide with an opening thru which a comparatively large quantity of air can be inducted and subsequently be discharged from the tube along with the expanded air.

One form of the blower is especially adapted for use in drying vehicles and includes an integral body preferably of cast material, such as aluminum, and includes an induction tube 6 of generally cylindricalcontour which mer es smoothly with an intake horn 7 of gra ually increasing cross section. The intake horn is suitably curved and flared to alto a wide opening to the atmosphere well to one side of the induction tube. Mounted on the intake horn and arranged substantially co-axially with the cylindrical induction tube 6 is a boss 8. The bossis (preferably cast integrally with the tube an horn and is bored out centrally to receive a nozzle 9 which is disposed co-axially with the induction tube 6. The nozzle 9 is preferably made of brass or other material having a lesser coeflicient of expansion. than the boss 8. The end of the tube 9 is flared and rests within a conical'seat 11 formed on the interior of the 100 "nipple 12 connects thru a coc 14,

. mch. To prevent careless manipulation ofhighly comp air to flow and thru the nipfil'c 12 into disc the blower from marring the highly finished Y surfaces atwhich the air stream is directed,

an annulus or. ring 18 preferably of rubber or other cushioning material is sli ped over the end of the induction tube 6- an revents di-. not contact of the induction tube with the surface beingvdried. a

In the operation of. my blower, the induction tube6 is directed at the'surface to-be,

dried and the handle 16 is dep operatdrical open ended in the hand provided an outwardly flaring said elbow ha an aperturedwith the axis of e casting-and a said aperture and exten along the axis of the-casting to the inner undary of the flared elbown y In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set myhand.

DEXTER 'o. BAKER.

ing, the cock 14 and permitting'a supply of from the source'- of air under pressurcthru' the flexible the nozzle The air ows thru the nozzle, 9 and arges and ex ands substantially alongthe central axis 0 the cylindrical induction tube 6. A large quantity of air is induced toflow thru the intake born 7 and the inducpipe 17 tion tube 6 an I discharge with the expanded air. The air expanding from the nozzle 9 dropssomewhat in temperature, and since the material of the boss 8 is ofa greatercm 1 feflicient'of ex ansion than the material of" Y very advanta large quantity'of rapidly moving air using to the hi h induces-the flow of a the nozzle 9, t e boss tends to contract ata greater rate than the nozzle and holds the nozzle firmly in g p to flow in thru t e' intake'horn 7 and ming with the ex lace. Also, the air-induced pended compremed air is slightly cooled and lsdischa'rged from the induction tube 6 at a temperature which will not injure the varnish or other finish on the vehicle bein dried. I

T e foregoing description treats of my blower as it is used in a particular environment but the device, either in the form shownl in the drawings or in modificdfor'ms-is a other uses. It emai cable to various but a small amount of high air, small v ressor and sum high-pressure piping can used in plfgpf a la blower and large size ipe lead i from int 0 use, thereby eflectin'g a considerab c saving in the cost of-the conduits and transmitting a lesser voluine of air. The pressure air discharging from the nozzle great quantity 'ot air at (1, making the'devicea relatively high blowing of a arge I claim: A portable blower a cylinv'olume of air is desirable.

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